Blood Box - Funeral In An Empty Room (2011)

Seven years after the highly acclaimed Iron Dream CD (Eibon) and 14 years after the CD debut, A World of Hurt (Malignant/Katyn), Blood Box finally returns with a new album, Funeral In An Empty Room. As one part of revered dark ambient project Yen Pox, Michael JV Hensley is certainly no stranger to creating epic and immersive soundscapes, and with Funeral In An Empty Room, he has yet again meticulously crafted another highly detailed, intensely atmospheric work. Awash in slow, dreamlike waves of morphing textures, and blissfully unfurling cosmic drift, this is nothing less than an aural vision down the hypnotic path to the unknown; serene yet gloomy, with multiple layers of swelling tones, subdued melodies, and ominous, spacey effects.

Blood Box is a project of Michael Hensley whose work in the terrorist ambient ensemble Yen Pox we have praised before. On his own, Hensley strikes a more menacing pose; where Yen Pox conjures a narcotic numbness laced with the imagery of fear, death, and horror, Blood Box places you directly in the midst of a tragic aural nightmare. Snarling beasts and whispering demons haunt the nether regions of bleak reverberating dronescapes, giving way to majestic swells of minor key orchestral fragments. Funeral in an Empty Room by Seattle producer Blood Box (aka Michael Hensley) is coming out April 4 on the German label Loki. You can check out a mix of it below. Over the last 17 years or so, Blood Box has proved himself to be one of the country's foremost producers of unsettling ambient music. His work subtly insinuates its way into your mind like some improbable brand of incense made out of absinthe and nameless dread. It possesses a profound elemental thrust, an enveloping grandeur that seems tailor-made to soundtrack the world's most eerily desolate places. Funeral in an Empty Room is dream/nightmare music of the highest order, the diabolical spores of a mind that's imagined incomprehensible atrocities and endured existential crises, and made peace—and tranquilly infernal music—out of them.

TRACKS
01.Wither And Fade 09:54
02.The Celestial Abyss 08:19
03.Battles Beneath The Earth 10:51
04.Armies Of The Midnight Sun 09:43
05.Far Beyond The Silent Sea 09:21
06.Ghost Procession 10:50
07.Oracle Of Babylon 08:20
08.The Stain 11:05